Orthothecidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthothecidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 127 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Cambrian — about 31 of 77 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 24 of 77 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 77 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 20 of 77 occurrencesDevonian542–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–531 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences531–526 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences526–521 Mya — about 6 occurrences521–516 Mya — about 2 occurrences516–510 Mya — about 12 occurrences510–505 Mya — about 7 occurrences505–500 Mya — about 2 occurrences500–495 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences490–484 Mya — about 2 occurrences484–479 Mya — about 4 occurrences479–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–469 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences469–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–453 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences453–448 Mya — about 4 occurrences448–442 Mya — about 8 occurrences432–427 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences427–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–416 Mya — about 1 occurrence416–411 Mya — about 3 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 5 occurrences406–401 Mya — about 5 occurrences401–395 Mya — about 3 occurrences395–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences521 Mya393.47 Mya542 Mya385 Mya

77 occurrences of Orthothecidae on record, most of them in the Cambrian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

77 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

42 formations

Gydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 33.33°S, 19.37°EGydo — 33.31°S, 22.43°EGydo — 34.01°S, 23.46°EBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WTyuser — 71.07°N, 127.43°ETyuser — 71.03°N, 127.48°EAnse Maranda — 46.83°N, 71.09°WLower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WLindegard Mudstone — 55.53°N, 14.23°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 3.00°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°ELangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WSkeels Corner Slate — 44.78°N, 73.11°WDalby — 57.00°N, 17.00°EShineton Shale — 52.63°N, 2.58°WShineton Shales — 52.63°N, 2.58°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EYan Yean — 34.08°S, 151.02°EOelandicus Shale — 56.88°N, 16.65°ENorretorp — 52.48°N, 13.83°EDictyonema Shale — 55.58°N, 14.13°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 115.00°EAcoite — 22.30°S, 65.30°WSanta Rosita — 24.00°S, 66.00°WBuelna — 30.42°N, 111.93°W

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The named rock units Orthothecidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthothecidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Orthothecidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

1,250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Orthothecidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

45 references

Each of the 77 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 33 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Orthothecidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthothecidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Orthothecidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrthothecida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Syssoiev 1957